As the sun rose on the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, a crowd erupted in cheers at Stonehenge where the ...

Early Saturday morning, the occurrence of the 2024 winter solstice marked the astronomical start of winter, and it's been greeted with appropriately frigid temperatures.

The solstice is at 4:20 a.m. on Saturday, giving us an almost full day of winter to kick things off. Sunrise is at 7:58 a.m., with solar noon not long after at 12:30 p.m.

During the summer solstice, the Sun rises over the Tropic of Cancer (23° 26' latitude) in the Northern Hemisphere. In ...

Compare that to Fairbanks, Alaska, where the sunrise on Dec. 21 is 10:58 a.m. and sunset is 2:40 p.m. on the winter solstice — less than four hours of daylight. What happens on the winter solstice?